This project provides a new corpus of digitised textual sources related to historical court depositions. The infrastructure consists of a crowd-sourcing platform, where handwritten documents are entered into a collaborative database and annotated for further use. As such, DH-CODE will contribute to the development of a semantic annotation platform, test the use of handwritten text recognition tools to assist the digitization process, and provide a corpus that is ideally suited for developing expertise in the automated analysis and annotation of historical text data.
IMMIBEL is a collaboration between the State Archives of Belgium, the VUB, ULB and Antwerp University. It contributes to our understanding of 19th-century migration patterns to Belgium, based on a large-scale collection of structured data, record linkage, and statistical, GIS, life course, social network and qualitative analysis.
STREAM (UGent, VUB)
The Spatiotemporal Research Infrastructure for Early Modern Flanders and Brabant project collects statistical data at the local and regional level for the early modern period, structures them into databases and provides those with georeferencing. It provides a comprehensive data infrastructure for quantitative research on the social and economic history of the pre-industrial period. The project uses the IIIF mapping and semantic annotation services.
Publications
Vosters, R., Belsack, E., Puttaert, J.,Vandenbussche, W., ‘Norms and Usage in Nineteenth-Century Southern Dutch.’ In: G. Rutten, R. Vosters, & W. Vandenbussche (Eds.), Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900. A historicalsociolinguistic and comparative perspective (Series: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 3, 73–100). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Ryckbosch, W., ‘Economic inequality and growth before the industrial revolution: the case of the Low Countries (14th-19th centuries).’ In: European Review of Economic History, 20:1 (2016), 1-22.
Deschacht, N. & Winter, W., ‘Rural Crisis and Rural Exodus? Local Migration Dynamics during the Crisis of the 1840s in Flanders (Belgium).’ In: Explorations in Economic History, 56 (2015), 32-52.
Tyssens, J., ‘Crossing Gender and Colour Lines in American Fraternalism: A Study on Joseph W. Kinsley (1843-1905).’ In: Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, 6:1(2015), 94-130.
Cuenca-Garcia, C., Sarris, A., Makarona, C., Charalambos, A., Faka, M., Hafez, I. Hermon, S., Kassianidou, V. & Nys, K., ‘Integrated geophysical and in-situ soil geochemical survey at Dromolaxia-Vizakia (Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus).’ In: Archaeologia Polona. Special theme: Archaeological Prospection, 53 (2015), 440-443.